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Financial Times: Boeing sees no good case for re-engined 737

Boeing continues to see no compelling case for outfitting its 737 family with new, more-efficient engines, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh told the Financial Times in a story published Thursday.

Boeing and Airbus executives have been mulling how to respond to upstart single-aisle airliner challengers, particularly Bombardier’s CSeries. Airbus launched a program to re-engine its A320 family last week.

But Boeing executives have repeatedly said their airline customers aren’t clamoring for a re-engined 737 and would wait for a replacement aircraft that would enter service around 2020. And that’s just what Albaugh told the Financial Times.

“I think most of them will wait for a new aeroplane,” he said in the story.

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